UT football: Brown’s raise called ‘unseemly’

Not everyone at Texas is excited for Longhorns football coach Mack Brown.

The university’s faculty council approved a resolution Monday calling Brown’s recent $2-million raise “unseemly and inappropriate.” It was an informal vote, because the faculty did not have a quorum to make it official.

Last week, UT’s board of regents voted to make Brown’s $2-million annual service payment permanent through the end of his contract, which runs through 2016. That effectively makes Brown the highest-paid college football coach in the country at $5 million per year.

All of Brown’s earnings come from the athletic department, which generated $87.5 million in revenues in 2008 and has contributed $6.6 million to UT academic programs since 2005.

When Brown’s raise was announced, UT president William Powers Jr. cited those contributions and said Brown “brought credit to our university.”

Mike Finger

5 Responses

Dang, someone’s been revising history. Major blew out his knee, again, and that’s how Chris was the starter. Mack didn’t “relegate” him. Major was out for the entire Spring that year with the surgery and then re-hab for his knee. Warren, you’re a real ignorant piece of work.

Id rather take “Lucky” during an 13-0 season than SUCK with a 6-6 record like aggy–who also pays its coach close to 2 million dollars AND has to BORROW money from A&M in order to keep its Athletic Department Functioning. Who’s getting their money’s worth? Not Aggy!!

I have not been a fan of Mack Brown since he took Major Applewhite and relegated him to a “stand-in” for his buddy Phil Simm’s son. Applewhite was a winner and if he had been quarterback his senior year Mack Brown would have two National Championships instead of one. To further prove the point I think Texas was “lucky” to have won the Big 12 on the bonehead coaching that was done against Nebraska. That being said, if he beats Alabama then my hat is off to him and I will say he has earned his raise.

What a bunch of whiners. You forgot to mention that the athletic department income for the year before Brown started was about 21 million. Let’s see those faculty members bring in 60 million a year each to the school.

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